Living By Example

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; — read the full passage →

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb: — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us--a pattern;

`He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

`And it hath been--if thou hearken diligently unto My commands which I am commanding you to-day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul--

An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord;

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

for through faith we walk, not through sight--

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men, — read the full passage →

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ.

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.'

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more; — read the full passage →

He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

and ye--ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Come, we sing to Jehovah, We shout to the rock of our salvation. — read the full passage →

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly--as to babes in Christ; — read the full passage →

`For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

And thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their threshing Gilead with sharp-pointed irons, — read the full passage →

Blow ye a trumpet in Zion, And shout ye in My holy hill, Tremble do all inhabitants of the earth, For coming is the day of Jehovah, for <FI>it is<Fi> near! — read the full passage →

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus,

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin: — read the full passage →

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

And he dreameth yet another dream, and recounteth it to his brethren, and saith, `Lo, I have dreamed a dream again, and lo, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars, are bowing themselves to me.'

And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand, — read the full passage →

And after these things I heard a great voice of a great multitude in the heaven, saying, `Alleluia! the salvation, and the glory, and the honour, and the power, <FI>is<Fi> to the Lord our God; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam--Enoch--saying, `Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads, — read the full passage →

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin, — read the full passage →

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye, — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest <FI>it<Fi> to them, — read the full passage →

The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst. — read the full passage →

And lift me up doth a spirit, and it bringeth me in unto the east gate of the house of Jehovah, that is facing the east, and lo, at the opening of the gate twenty and five men, and I see in their midst Jaazaniah son of Azzur, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, heads of the people. — read the full passage →

`Who <FI>is<Fi> this coming from Edom? With dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is honourable in his clothing, Travelling in the abundance of his power?' --`I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.' — read the full passage →

Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that <FI>is<Fi> in Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse, And a branch from his roots is fruitful. — read the full passage →

A Song, --A Psalm of Asaph. O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God. — read the full passage →

and without <FI>are<Fi> the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

And after these things I saw four messengers, standing upon the four corners of the land, holding the four winds of the land, that the wind may not blow upon the land, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree; — read the full passage →

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as it were a voice of thunder, `Come and behold!' — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,

Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith--considering the issue of the behaviour--be imitating,

these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, — read the full passage →

The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →